Custody Battle

Custody Battle
General Information
Original broadcast	July 2, 2004
Details
Season	6
Episode	12
Pun	The phrase of the same name
Credits
Written by	Chris Reccardi
Directed by	John McIntyre
Episode Guide
Previous episode	Night Mayor
Next episode	City of Nutsville
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"Custody Battle" is the twelfth episode of the sixth season and the 126th episode overall.

It premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on July 2, 2004.

Plot

Mojo and Him compete for The Rowdyruff Boys' fatherhood.

Synopsis

It's Father's Day, and Mojo Jojo is at the park. He then sees The Rowdyruff Boys. A shocked Mojo asks the boys how they are alive after The Powerpuff Girls destroyed them. They laugh at him, and Him shows up and tells Mojo that he brought them back, but edited Mojo's mistakes and made them stronger. Shocked and angry, Mojo starts arguing with Him. Their arguing eventually boils down to an intensive battle about which one of them is eviler and therefore a more fit father for the boys. They try multiple things to show their evil influence on the boys, some of them involve harassing the mayor.

Later, the boys get tired but grow aggravated as Mojo and Him continue to fuss. Finally, the boys get so aggravated that they yell at the two "fathers" saying they don't care whoever is eviler or stupider ("or whatever!") and states that the only evil thing they care about is destroying the Powerpuff Girls, since that was the only thing they wanted to do since their first encounter with them. They then fly off into Townsville, presumably to find and fight the Powerpuff Girls once again and as they leave Mojo and HIM cry with joy over this, dubbing it the evilest thing they can think of. They then have a tear-filled embracement and proudly watch as the boys head to the city to destroy the girls.

The Rowdyruff Boys appeared in this episode.

"And so with Mojo and Him happy together, the day is doomed! Thanks to... The Rowdyruff Boys."

Featured characters

• Mojo Jojo
• The Rowdyruff Boys (Brick, Boomer, and Butch)
• Mayor
• Charlie Bean
• Him
• Ms. Bellum
• Citizens of Townsville
• The Powerpuff Girls (Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup) (flashback)

Quotes

("HIM" has caused the sun to move toward Earth)

HIM: Splendidly evil, isn't it?

Mojo: Evil? How about stupid? Yes, thanks to your foolishness, we will be reduced to nothing! Nothing - like the amount of intelligence inside your head! Nothing - like the amount of respect I get after six seasons on this show!

Narrator: And so with Mojo and HIM happy together, the day is doomed! Thanks to the Rowdyruff Boys.

Trivia

• This is one of two episodes in the entire series where The Powerpuff Girls do not appear in (not counting the stock footage cameo). The other one is "West in Pieces" (although in that episode, the girls' Western ancestors are present, so that might not really count).
• This was the final appearance of The Rowdyruff Boys until the 2016 series episode "Total Eclipse of the Kart".
• This is the last time HIM appears in an 11-minute episode as well as his final major episode appearance in the original series.
• This is also HIM's final role as the main villain.
• Mojo breaks the fourth wall in this episode when he says "Nothing, like the amount of respect I get after 6 seasons on this show."
• This is the second time that the Powerpuff Girls are not the main characters. The first being "Prime Mates", the last "West in Pieces".
• Stock footage from "The Rowdyruff Boys" and "The Boys are Back in Town" is used.
• This episode has a Rowdyruff skull background ending shot (and "The End" is written in red).
• This episode also says at the end "And so, with Mojo and HIM finally happy together, the day is doomed; thanks to... The Rowdyruff Boys!" instead of "And so, the day is saved; thanks to... The Powerpuff Girls!"
• It is unknown what happened to the Rowdyruff Boys, as they never appear again after this. It's possible that they continued to live their usual lives.
• This episode was planned to be a 22-minute episode in order to explain what happened to the Rowdyruff Boys after this episode.
• Strangely, The Rowdyruff Boys do not remember Mojo Jojo even though he was the one who created them, and even though they remember The Powerpuff Girls. It has been suggested that HIM altered their memories after completely restoring and enhancing them.
• The word Mayor is spelled MAYOUR.
• This is the second and last time the Mayor has been naked (or at least been seen wearing nothing but his hat) onscreen, the first time being in "The Bare Facts".
• When the boys crash Mojo's robot, Brick appears to be missing his hair (this could be because he was upside down).
• The man the Mayor chases for the banana is the carjacker seen in "Girls Gone Mild".
• The line "That's the evilest thing I can imagine", has become an internet meme used in the context of someone doing something that is 'evilish'.
• This is the first and only episode where HIM is seen crying.
• This is the second Father's Day special episode. The first was A Very Special Blossom. Especially that the Rowdyruff Boys have two fathers, Mojo Jojo the one who first created and HIM who revived, restored, stablized and enhanced them and also making them immune to their former greatest weakness, cooties, which had destroyed them at the end of their debut episode before being completely restored by HIM more than four years later.
• Some old black and white stock footage is seen in the background behind the boys while HIM's claw swipes through to change their looks from old to new.

Errors

• In the end the girls' colors fly by when it’s supposed to be the boys'.
• On the scene where the boys are in Mojo Jojo's lair, as they were folding their arms, Brick and Boomer's skin and sleeve colors are swapped.